What effect does acid rain have on rivers?

Brainyblonde

Lakes that have been acidified cannot support the same variety of life as healthy lakes. As a lake becomes more acidic, crayfish and clam populations are the first to disappear, then various types of fish. Many types of plankton-minute organisms that form the basis of the lake's food chain-are also affected. As fish stocks dwindle, so do populations of loons and other water birds that feed on them. The lakes, however, do not become totally dead. Some life forms actually benefit from the increased acidity. Lake-bottom plants and mosses, for instance, thrive in acid lakes. So do blackfly larvae. http://www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain/acidwater.html Nov 13 06, 11:35 AM

davejacobs

Not much, unless the river is fed from such a lake as is described by brainyblonde. Nov 13 06, 4:31 PM

Saiqa

Acid rain makes the river water polluted. So when fish swim in the water and stuff they become sick. And lots of people in poor counties use the river water to take showers and drink and stuff like that. Then those people become sick. When acid rain falls on the rivers it mainly affects the living beings that use or drin that water. It only affects the water by making it impure. Nov 14 06, 12:06 AM